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Gigabyte's ASPM Motherboard Fix: Use Windows

10-18-2011, 08:00 PM

Phoronix: Gigabyte's ASPM Motherboard Fix: Use Windows

If you have an affected motherboard to the ASPM power regression in the Linux kernel and it's from Gigabyte, don't expect a BIOS update from them to correct the ASPM semantics in the BIOS. Gigabyte recommends you just use Microsoft Windows...

i do have a gigabyte mainboard right now but to read this about gigabyte makes me sad--

maybe i really buy supermicro or tyan next time.

i do have a Tyan mainboard in the past but the nvidia nfoce 3600 pro makes many trouble with the graphic driver and the bios do have tons of bugs like the 128gb first boot pardition bug if you have a pardition greater than 128gb it fails to start grub. also the bios do have a bug that force me to use ext3 or raiserfs it does not start with ext4...

but maybe the modern mainboards with amd chipset are much better than that.

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But please feel free to wake me up next time a Linux vendor innovates a new Desktop hardware technology itself. I'm pretty sure Red Hat and Canonical have done much in this regard.

/sarcasm off

What scares the hell out of me is how many motherboard manufacturers are going to use Windows 8 digital signing and not give an option to disable it in their bios rendering trying to install any other OS useless. I can actually see venders doing this in the near future as a way of avoiding the "hassling linux bug issues".

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I have an Intel motherboard (DP55WG) where ASPM is also disabled by Linux and I re-enable. They do fairly frequent BIOS updates and seem to be on the ball so I wonder what the problem is. Most frustrating is that the BIOS hangs at POST if my Android phone is connected via USB. Needless to say their support blamed my phone (I wonder which bit of the USB says how to hang the BIOS) and had the ingenious solution of unplugging the phone before turning on power. Who would have thought of that? I did say they need to tell the BIOS writers, but support were just doing their usual having 10 answers and ensuring that all enquiries get one of them rather than addressing the issue.

I also have a Lenovo T61 laptop which had a BIOS issue with Linux (you got a flood of unexpected interrupts). They did fix that in a BIOS update and hence will be getting all my future business not to mention several people I recommend to.

I greatly appreciate Gigabyte's response. The usual problem is too wide a selection of motherboards so it is nice to eliminate several manufacturers in one go.

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I have an Intel motherboard (DP55WG) where ASPM is also disabled by Linux and I re-enable. They do fairly frequent BIOS updates and seem to be on the ball so I wonder what the problem is. Most frustrating is that the BIOS hangs at POST if my Android phone is connected via USB. Needless to say their support blamed my phone (I wonder which bit of the USB says how to hang the BIOS) and had the ingenious solution of unplugging the phone before turning on power. Who would have thought of that? I did say they need to tell the BIOS writers, but support were just doing their usual having 10 answers and ensuring that all enquiries get one of them rather than addressing the issue.

I also have a Lenovo T61 laptop which had a BIOS issue with Linux (you got a flood of unexpected interrupts). They did fix that in a BIOS update and hence will be getting all my future business not to mention several people I recommend to.

I greatly appreciate Gigabyte's response. The usual problem is too wide a selection of motherboards so it is nice to eliminate several manufacturers in one go.

The same thing happened with my Lenovo T520. I called their technical support and they told me to use Windows.